No doubt you've noticed some changes around here. Yeah, this is has been sometime in the making. We had to enslave an entire wing of the local library to find the nerd-power necessary to get this far. And on top of that, we had to buy majority shares in Jolt Cola to make sure everything launched on time.

This was all Wanye's idea. And when I asked him to help test the site tonight, he just yelled, "IHAVETOGOTOPOKER!"

So I tested it — along with developer boy-genius Jeffu.

And we registered and re-registered on the new sites. Until it was perfect**.

And when we phoned Wanye to tell him we were live, all he had to say from his poker game was, "What the f&*$?! What time is it? Holy crap, it took forever! You poor bastards working through the night..."

This was said in between loud cursing and the sounds of breaking glass.

But as sure as the sun rises, so do we... Ahem. I didn't mean for it to sound like that.

Welcome to the dawn of a new Nation (or Army depending on your timezone).

We'll be rolling out new features (and importing our old content) over the next little while, so stay tuned. In the meantime, register, comment and enjoy the sexy new look.

** I was joking about perfect. It's still something of a work in progress. If you find any bugs, email them to bingofuel@oilersnation.com. Oh yeah, we have real email addresses now.

More on that after I finish this mickey of cough medicine and pass-out in the kitchen.

Bingofuel is the handsome cyborg who used to pull all the levers behind the curtains of the OilersNation.
Now he podcasts and makes videos and has a real job.

I'm hoping it's just my computer at work rejecting the Nation because this site is just screwed on my comp right now. Everything is showing written by bingofuel. I can only see a couple comments on each article. I can't register as a member od the Nation.... I can't drink until I go home.

Things will be messed up until the DNS switchover is complete. Best think of it as OilersNation stuck in limbo between the Enterprise transport pad and a location planetside full of scantily-clad green aliens. In several hours, things should work themselves out.

Currently the articles are all under bingofuel because we haven't got the other authors set up yet. Once they're in the system, we'll assign proper authorship.

Thanks for bearing with us on the transition folks. In the few weeks, we hope to have all previous archives, blogroll, polls, news feeds, and everything else you take for granted. This is a brand spanking new system written from scratch, so things will be phased in batches.

Love the new look...excited for the start of the season and game 1 in my season ticket booklet!!!!! Sorry, my first year of season tickets after 4 long years on the waiting list..better be worth it...lol

Just a note, I can only access Oilers Nation through Firefox. Its not working in IE. I get a Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage message.

Sorry to add to the headaches....

No worries, we need to iron out the wrinkles one way or another. We'll wait for the internet DNS magicalness-ness-ness work itself out today, then circle back and resolve any errors that are still poking about.

ya, I don't know. I am just a dumb fan that hasn't taken the time to read or learn the CBA. I was just looking at the straight numbers. Montreal has 2.11 mill cap space and the difference between Grebs and Lapierre is $2.463 mill.

The numbers may work and the point of my initial comment was Grebs seems to be the one guy I would trade. Souray and Smid bring toughness and size and attitude, while Visnovsky brings a good break out game. I don't think anyone will take Staios at this point of the season and Gilbert has too big an upside.